Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Sunday, October 3 8:25 AM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, October 11 5:45 AM
  • New Moon Monday, October 18 9:43 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, October 25 4:55 PM

Also in October

  • Mid-Autumn Festival Sunday, October 3 Chinese calendar
  • Sukkot Monday, October 4 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Diwali Monday, October 18 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 21–22 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 11% lit, 10 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 15–22.

Times are in Columbus time (America/New York), and moonrise and moonset are for Columbus. Each day's Moon is turned as it is in the sky of Columbus when it is highest that night (near the New Moon, that day).

September October 2066 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:00 PM
Set: 5:24 AM
2 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:28 PM
Set: 6:33 AM
3 Sunday
Full Moon
8:25 AM
Harvest Moon
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:57 PM
Set: 7:40 AM
4 Monday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:27 PM
Set: 8:47 AM
5 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:02 PM
Set: 9:52 AM
6 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:40 PM
Set: 10:55 AM
7 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:24 PM
Set: 11:55 AM
8 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:13 PM
Set: 12:49 PM
9 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:06 PM
Set: 1:38 PM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:20 PM
11 Monday
Last Quarter
5:45 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:03 AM
Set: 2:57 PM
12 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 38% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:01 AM
Set: 3:29 PM
13 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:01 AM
Set: 3:58 PM
14 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:02 AM
Set: 4:24 PM
15 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:04 AM
Set: 4:50 PM
Dark night
16 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:07 AM
Set: 5:16 PM
Dark night
17 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:12 AM
Set: 5:44 PM
Dark night
18 Monday
New Moon
9:43 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:20 AM
Set: 6:15 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:31 AM
Set: 6:51 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:43 AM
Set: 7:34 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:53 AM
Set: 8:25 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:59 AM
Set: 9:25 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:57 PM
Set: 10:32 PM
24 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 11:42 PM
25 Monday
First Quarter
4:55 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:28 PM
Set: –
26 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:03 PM
Set: 12:54 AM
27 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:34 PM
Set: 2:05 AM
28 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:02 PM
Set: 3:13 AM
29 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:29 PM
Set: 4:21 AM
30 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:57 PM
Set: 5:27 AM
31 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:27 PM
Set: 6:33 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday